The theme of The Lottery is that blindly following tradition can be dangerous. This story explores the concept of unquestioningly following past ways and not asking the reason behind doing things. We see that this ignorance eventually leads to the loss of life, and for seemingly no purpose.
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Your answer will be B. the tone is the author's attitude toward the subject.
Explanation:
Tone may be formal, informal, or have other possible attitudes. Authors set a tone in literature by conveying emotions or feelings through words.The way a person feels about an idea/concept, event or other person can be quickly determine through their facial expressions, gesture, and in the tone of their voice.
A personal pronoun takes the place of a noun for a specific person or thing. The personal pronouns are: I, you, we, he, she, it, me, us, him, her, they, them. A personal pronoun takes the place of a noun for a specific person or thing.
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D. They create a sense of suspense
Explanation:
Each of these words and phrases indicate that something important is happening. For example "The immediate pressure of necessity" makes the reader want to know what pressures are the people under where they need to make decisions based on necessity. Also the lines "their only escape from the destruction that...creeps upon them" shows that destruction is coming.
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The inertia of the rulers and the hypocrisy of the rich and Christian society.
Explanation:
In "A modest proposal", Swift is addressing how society is flawed and allows misery to be established in the country by harming many people. He does this, showing how society has failed by promoting inert politicians who only care about their own well-being, preventing the population from making progress, in addition to doing nothing for the most needy citizens. In addition, he shows that the rich and Christian society has been hypocritical, showing itself as good and generous individuals, but who do not help those who need it most, but exploit and ignore them.
